October 9 — A federal grand jury has charged 11 Cincinnatians in a conspiracy to steal bank customers’ information in Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky in an indictment unsealed here today. According to the indictment, five of the defendants were employed as customer service representatives at Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati, and in conspiracy with…
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Defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his employer’s information he was accused of taking
FourthAmendment.com highlights a court opinion out of Massachusetts: Defendant is charged with accessing and taking his employer’s information for the purpose of setting up a rival company doing the same thing. His motion to suppress the information is denied because he has no reasonable expectation of privacy in it. United States v. Yu, 2020 U.S….
Medical data of 150 Toronto hospital patients allegedly used to extort money from company
Katherine DeClerq reports: A Toronto hospital says that roughly 150 patients have been impacted by a data breach after a third-party employee allegedly stole medical reports in an effort to extort money from their company after being let go. According to a letter sent on Sept. 30 by a privacy and information access specialist at Unity…
University Hospital Limerick writing to 630 patients after alleged major data breach which saw information posted on Twitter
David Raleigh reports: University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is in the process of sending letters to over 600 patients following an alleged major data breach concerning patient data, including details of 95 children, which was then posted on social media. Gardaí have also been informed of the alleged breach by a non-HSE employee. It’s alleged the…
NY: Former Information Technology Employee Of Hospital Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Computer Intrusion
From the SDNY, a press release involving an unnamed hospital in NYC. I’ll tell you more about this one after the press release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD LIRIANO was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to…
Maryland Man Sentenced to Prison for Intentionally Damaging the Computers of His Former Employer
From DOJ, this press release today about a case where a former employee exceeded previously authorized access: A Maryland man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today to 12 months and one day in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally accessing and damaging the computer network of…